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| MobileMe Family Pack | 
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| From: Apple
Category: Software
List Price: $149.00
Buy New: $63.99
You Save: $85.01 (57%)
New (23) from $63.99
Avg. Customer Rating:  22 reviews
Sales Rank: 74
Format: Dvd-rom
Platform: Mac Os X
Media: DVD-ROM
Edition: Family Pack
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.6
Dimensions (in): 5.5 x 5.3 x 0.6
MPN: MB825Z/A
Model: MB825Z/A
UPC: 885909270262
EAN: 0885909249909
ASIN: B001BY0C2U
Release Date: July 12, 2008
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Condition: BRAND NEW IN RETAIL BOX.
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| Customer Reviews:
 Fewer features, less reliability July 27, 2008
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
I've subscribed to the .Mac Family Pack for two years, was recently transitioned to MobileMe. MobileMe is a significantly lesser product than .Mac, both from the standpoint of reliability and feature set.
Other contributors have noted significant problems with MobileMe, such as not being able to use entries in the Address Book to address email, or having access to email at all for over a week (I can just now view my email via Web, but not in the OS X Mail application, which means I can't file the email locally), but what's significant to me about my Family Pack is that during the transition, the account seems to have been reclassified as "Individual." I can't find an access point to correct the error, don't know if Apple is aware of the problem, or when the issue may go to the front burner for correction. On the bright side, the subaccounts seem to still be active.
Aside from problems with the rollout, some .Mac features have changed in ways that are less user-friendly, or have been discontinued. The .Mac home page has been discontinued, which not only announced new and updated features, but also posted current system status. Status information is now several clicks away, which is far less convenient for determining if one of the services is down. A popular .Mac feature that's not available in MobileMe is iCards, which many of us enjoyed for staying in contact with friends and family. No equivalent is available in MobileMe.
If you're only now considering a subscription, the changes won't disappoint you, but I recommend waiting until ALL of the well-publicized issues are corrected before purchasing MobileMe, especially the more expensive Family Pack.
September 29, 2008 update to original comments: MobileMe email continues to have problems. When accessed via the Web (instead of through your email application, such as OS X's Mail program), MobileMe email remains painfully slow--I've taken vacations shorter than the wait time to see my Inbox or to start a message--the service continues to display cryptic error messages that may or may not correspond to the actual status of a sent message, and now, while writing a message, you can find yourself back at the Inbox while your message-in-progress disappears.
Read the subscriber posts about MobileMe in Apple Support's Web site before buying. If Apple is working to improve MobileMe, they seem to be headed in the wrong direction. Very disappointing.
A spectacular disappointment July 25, 2008
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
When I signed up for .mac, 2 years ago, it was a good service. Apart from some very short outages, it worked fine and proved to be a good and useful service.
The migration of the .mac service to MobileMe was quite exciting. The extra functionalities sounded very good, and I was looking forward to try them out. Unfortunately, and further to a bit of a rocky start - perhaps not surprising, given the complexity of the update - unspecified problems occured to one of their servers causing 1% of their users (20,000+ people?) to lose access to their email.
This situation has been going on for over 7 days now. Those affected (me included) have not heard a word from Apple, apart from a paltry two sentence acknowledgement of the problem in their support pages. We have no updates, no help from their support staff, no idea when the service might get back up, and no reassurance that our email on the server is safe.
All in all this situation has been managed in an appalling manner, and Apple should be ashamed.
Until they can guarantee that this will not happen to you, stay away from MobileMe.
MobileMess July 25, 2008
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
I have been a loyal Apple customer for 5 years and couldn't me more disappointed than I am today with MobileMe. This application has crippled the Apple user community and is far less useful than expected. It is not fully integrated and not a replacement for any Blackberry. Calendars are not integrated with email, and you cannot send invites out via the Calendar application. It's just terrible. And two weeks into the launch and our email is still not consistently available.
No real "family" features July 24, 2008
9 out of 11 found this review helpful
I have been a .Mac subscriber since the beginning. We have had the "Family Pack" for the past 2 years.
You would expect a "Family Pack" to include ways to have common calendars and address books and to share files easily.
Nope.
You can only share calendars with family members on a read-only basis. The address book sharing is very unreliable and buggy. I have had to use 3rd party tools for both of these purposes.
The transition to MobileMe has been very rocky, as we had no email access at all for the first 2 days and no email access on our primary account for the past 5 days. The change also broke our calendar sharing scheme and we are now trying a different 3rd party tool for this.
We have kept it all this time because we were able to make it work for us without too much trouble, but I can't recommend it to anyone else.
 Cloud computing to the next level July 24, 2008
1 out of 6 found this review helpful
I've had MobileMe (previously .Mac) for 4 months now and I love it. It provides a fast and easy way to publish your photo albums to the web as well as delivering your content to your different platforms (think your home mac machine, iphone & work PC).
This is the next generation of technology and it will only get better.
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